3406B head spacer plate

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    What I meant was, a reputable manufacturer of the spacer.
     
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    I get some from ATL Diesel and haven’t had any problems out of them.

    if you need the thinner one CAT was the only source last time I needed one a couple years ago. ATL would tell me they had the thinner one and send me the thick one saying the thinner one updated to the the thicker one. Tony down at Riggs fixed that pretty quickly
     
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    This is probably a dumb question but why is there two different thicknesses of spacers? Wouldn’t the liner shims, or lack of, make only one thickness feasible? Is it because of machine work done to the head or different head gasket thickness?
     
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    When counterboring a block yes you set protrusion off the shims and always run the thicker plate. But if you have an engine with low liners across the board with say 500k or less on it and you don’t really want to do a major you can get by with the thin plate
     
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    Is there different head gasket thicknesses offered for 3406A,B and C’s? I ask because Cummins, N14 and prior do. I’m not a fan, of the idea behind the use of an oversized gasket on the Cummins, but running 3 individual heads, I guess it’s route one can take to not scrap heads.
     
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    No there is 1 spacer plate gasket and 1 head gasket
     
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    Also comes in handy when the shop owner's know it all punk son goes too deep doing the counterbores and comes back a week later with a blown head gasket.

    Yeah, it happened.
     
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